Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future by Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult

Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616895303)

Vendor: Martha Hodgkins
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future by Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult

Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future

$21.95
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future by Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult

Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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Letters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries address the highs and lows of farming life--as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed--in vivid and personal detail. Barbara Kingsolver speaks to the tribe of farmers--some born to it, many self-selected--with love, admiration, and regret. Dan Barber traces the rediscovery of lost grains and foodways. Michael Pollan bridges the chasm between agriculture and nature. Bill McKibben connects the early human quest for beer to the modern challenge of farming in a rapidly changing climate. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree probes the politics of being a young farmer today. Farmer Mas Masumoto passes on family secrets to his daughter--and not-soon-forgotten stories to us all. Other contributors include Temple Grandin, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Wendell Berry, Rick Bayless, and Marion Nestle.

Letters to a Young Farmer is both a compelling history and a vital road map--a reckoning of how we eat and farm; how the two can come together to build a more sustainable future; and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers.

Author: Martha Hodgkins
ISBN-10: 1616895306
ISBN-13: 9781616895303
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
Library Journal 02/15/2017 pg. 112
By Martha Hodgkins
By Martha Hodgkins
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Martha Hodgkins is communications director at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. A former editor of Nature Conservancy magazine, she is the editor of In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places and The Field Guide to The Nature Conservancy.

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is on a mission to create a healthy and sustainable food system that benefits us all. A nonprofit organization, Stone Barns Center works to develop a culture of eating based on what farms need to grow to build healthy soil and a resilient ecosystem. In its quest to transform the way America eats and farms, the organization trains farmers, educates food citizens, develops agroecological farming practices, and convenes change makers. Stone Barns Center, 25 miles north of New York City, is home to the celebrated Blue Hill at Stone Barns, under the direction of chef and co-owner Dan Barber, a multiple James Beard award-winner.

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